No rare duals in Eldraine

I am not sure how official or reliable the source article is, but they say Maro said it. This would be interesting. If there are no duals, what are we going to see? Hopefully they have SOME use outside of Standard.

I don't really like the swamp but being fetchable is really nice. I am cautiously optimistic about the rest of the cycle. Also, without a rare dual land cycle, hopefully they do some nice, reasonably powered, rare lands. I am not asking for anything broken but maybe something better than Guildmages’ Forum and Plaza of Harmony.

We have the enemy temples from m20 and i'm sure we'll get ally temples with Theros #2, we still have the shocklands in standard, so i don't why Eldraine with no duals is such a huge scandal

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How i feel about competitive players and casual players in EDH: The competitive are german tourists, the casual are italian tourists, both in a italian beach. The italians asking themselves "why are the germans here?" make a legitimate question, the answer is because the beach is beautiful, no matter the country you came from. The italians wanting to ban the germans are dumb, because if the germans pay for their stay and follow the rules like everyone else, they have the right to be in the beach. Hovewer, if the germans started to ask themselves "why are the italians here?"... they would be dumb as hell.

I'd appreciate it a lot of they finished the BFZ, SOI and AMK land cycles before experimenting with no DL cycles or even worse more new ally color cycles.
Let's hope they're at least very playable in more than one format. Mono color rare lands don't have a stellar record.

With adamant in the set monocolor rare lands make sense, even if they'll end up weak

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How i feel about competitive players and casual players in EDH: The competitive are german tourists, the casual are italian tourists, both in a italian beach. The italians asking themselves "why are the germans here?" make a legitimate question, the answer is because the beach is beautiful, no matter the country you came from. The italians wanting to ban the germans are dumb, because if the germans pay for their stay and follow the rules like everyone else, they have the right to be in the beach. Hovewer, if the germans started to ask themselves "why are the italians here?"... they would be dumb as hell.

We've got Shocks and Checks in Standard already. And Theros is our next stop, right? Last time we were there, we got ten duals, the Temples. So, maybe for our next visit...

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MTGS Wikia Article about "New World Order"
Every time I read a comment about "Well if this card had card draw/trample/haste/indestructible/hexproof/life gain...", I think "You're missing the point." They're armchair developer comments that fail to take into account the card's role in the greater Limited and Standard environment. No, it may not be as good as whatever card you're comparing it to. There's a reason for that. Not every burn spell is Lightning Bolt, nor does it need to be or should be.

PSA to everyone who keeps forgetting about the Reserved List:
You're on a website dedicated to talking about MtG. You're only a few keystrokes away from finding out what cards are on the Reserved List. You're also only a few keystrokes away from finding out why some cards on the Reserved List got foil printings in FtV, as Judge promos, or whatnot, as well as why that won't happen again. Stop doing this.

tbh with checklands rotating out i think the mana base becomes much worse now if you want to play a 3 colored deck. and we have ravnica that really wants you to play more than 1 or 2 colors. a landbase with shocks, temples and the common tapped lands is just bad if. to many taplands. the checklands rotating out will hurt alot of decks if there comes no alternative in eldraine.
for example esper hero, a deck where only 1-2 nonland cards rotate out, but with the land base rotating it will be hard to play it post rotation

Personally, I'm ok with that.
I'm really fed up by the idea that in many decks (and all multi-color decks) the manabase is one of the most expensive parts while at the same time being the most important part of the deck if you don't want your chance to win to go down the drain.
When you can reliably pull off 3 and 4 color decks with almost every multi-color land coming into the battlefield UNTAPPED, then there is something wrong with the balancing (personal opinion, obviously).

Personally, I'm ok with that.
I'm really fed up by the idea that in many decks (and all multi-color decks) the manabase is one of the most expensive parts while at the same time being the most important part of the deck if you don't want your chance to win to go down the drain.
When you can reliably pull off 3 and 4 color decks with almost every multi-color land coming into the battlefield UNTAPPED, then there is something wrong with the balancing (personal opinion, obviously).

I agree with you, it's frustrating when you feel like you pretty much have to play a 3-color deck with a bunch of expensive lands if you want to play more than one color, also when decks can go T2 UB for Thought Erasure and then T4 WWBB for Basilica Bell-Haunt colors feel less significant, instead of deciding whether you'd like to play UB Control or WB, all you need to do is cram as many dual lands you can and just play both of those cards in the same deck. I'm glad they're toning down the mana fixing a bit, there's something called too much of a good thing, the insane mana fixing available during the Lorwyn standard enabled too much "good stuff" decks for an interesting format.

tbh with checklands rotating out i think the mana base becomes much worse now if you want to play a 3 colored deck. and we have ravnica that really wants you to play more than 1 or 2 colors. a landbase with shocks, temples and the common tapped lands is just bad if. to many taplands. the checklands rotating out will hurt alot of decks if there comes no alternative in eldraine.
for example esper hero, a deck where only 1-2 nonland cards rotate out, but with the land base rotating it will be hard to play it post rotation

Uh shocklands don’t rotate till the return to Zendikar without the eldrazis set

Besides we got the enemy temple scry lands in m20 theros coming up should bring us the ally ones

Personally, I'm ok with that.
I'm really fed up by the idea that in many decks (and all multi-color decks) the manabase is one of the most expensive parts while at the same time being the most important part of the deck if you don't want your chance to win to go down the drain.
When you can reliably pull off 3 and 4 color decks with almost every multi-color land coming into the battlefield UNTAPPED, then there is something wrong with the balancing (personal opinion, obviously).

But the thing about printing some kind of rare dual land cycle in every set is that it means they're more accessible, particularly when they reprint older ones (I just bought a 9th ed Caves of Koilos for 83¢ this weekend).